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Even some conservative justices sounded skeptical of arguments that the agency, created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans, and other consumer finance, violates the Constitution in the way it is funded.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, faces an existential threat before the Supreme Court.
The case to dismantle the CFPB ran into a hammer from the three liberal justices and marked skepticism from at least two of the conservatives.
Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett seem unlikely to trigger a second Great Depression.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case involving the CFPB and how it is funded.